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The jazz bird / Craig Holden.
Van Pelt Library PS3558.O347747 J39 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holden, Craig.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Remus, George, 1878-1952--Fiction.
- Remus, George.
- Remus, George, 1878-1952.
- Cincinnati (Ohio)--Fiction.
- Cincinnati (Ohio).
- Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
- Trials (Murder).
- Prohibition--Fiction.
- Prohibition.
- Criminals--Fiction.
- Criminals.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002.
- Summary:
- Lawyer George Remus became the country's biggest bootlegger, grossing over $80 million until his arrest. Upon his release from prison, he learns that his beautiful wife, Imogene, has left him and that his bank accounts are empty. On the morning of their divorce, he runs her car off the road in the middle of rush hour in Eden Park and shoots her to death.
- Shocked and fascinated by this horrible crime, the country gears up for a sensational trial pitting the man known as "the king of the bootleggers" against Chief Prosecutor Charlie Taft, the youngest son of the former president. The trial is a national spectacle, a lens focused on the fabulous rise and fall of the Remus empire and the tragic love story within it, and an attempt to answer some tantalizing questions: What actually happened to the fortune? What are the motives of the federal agent who brought Remus down? What complex emotions and desires, leading ultimately to the ruin of three men, really lie within the heart of the woman known as the Jazz Bird?
- Based on a true story, The Jazz Bird is at once a love story, a crime novel, and the tale of the courtroom battle between two powerful men whose respective futures hang in the balance.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Out of Eden 15
- Discovery
- Black for Mourning 21
- The Swimmer 29
- Teardrops 36
- A Fine Bordeaux 43
- A Lawyer's Lawyer 48
- Motions 54
- The Maker 62
- Opening Arguments
- Skirmishes 71
- Groundwork 79
- A Deal 87
- Partners 97
- Autumns 102
- Hand to Hand 109
- The Jazz Bird Sings 121
- Open 125
- Prosecution
- Scenes from a Killing 135
- A Dry Heat 147
- A Vision of a Lady 156
- Conspiracy 162
- The Whiskey Monopoly 172
- The Untouchables 179
- The End of Something 189
- Laura 194
- Defense
- A Portrait of Madness 205
- A Last and Only Hope 213
- Homecoming 220
- Conners's Story 227
- The Dead 234
- Killers 239
- A Plan 246
- Marcus's Story 256
- Verdict
- Dogs 263
- Rebuttals 267
- Watching Harry 272
- Dawn 275
- Eden Park 283
- The Night 287
- The Jury 296
- Epilogue: The Stone Room 303.
- ISBN:
- 0743212967
- OCLC:
- 46918350
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